a. Consultant for DSM Nutritional Products: Sells "Twinsweet" from Holland Sweetener Company, a mixture of aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde/diketopiperazine and acesulfame-k. Web site contains aspartame advocacy articles written by Holland Sweetener Company. (Incidentally Holland Sweetener Company no longer makes aspartame. It wasn't profitable anymore, and their pubic announcement to get out of the business came as a big surprise, only 3 days after I emailed Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands with detailed articles on this, all translated into perfect Dutch. Millions are being warned off aspartame.
b. Cantox Health Sciences. A corporate regulatory advocacy company. Helped write Monsanto's Roundup backgrounder (co-authored by president of Cantox) and has numerous corporate clients. Dr. Ian Munro, President of Cantox co-authored by review (along with NutraSweet employees) of aspartame calling aspartame toxicity a "non-issue."
3. Wrote a glowing review of Ajinomoto product, monosodium glutamate (MSG) for a symposium funded by Ajinomoto trade group, International Glutamate Technical Committee (IGTC). IGTC hid aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde/diketopiperazine in drink mixes given to the "control" group in MSG experiments from 1978 through 1993. Dr. Walker did of course, not mention this in the review. Any inclusion of Dr. Walker in any discussion or vote related to aspartame is an insult to scientific integrity.
ILSI Information:
On January 9, 2003, The Guardian reported that they obtained a confidential report relating to the food industry experts "infiltrating" the World Health Organization (WHO) Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) committees (Guardian 2003). The report found that: - Food companies attempted to place scientists favorable to their views on WHO and Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) committees. - They financially supported non-governmental organizations, which were invited to formal discussions on key issues with the United Nations (UN) agencies. - They financed research and policy groups that supported their views. - They financed individuals who would promote "anti-regulation ideology" to the public, for instance in newspaper articles. "One industry-led organization, International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), has positioned its experts and expertise across the who spectrum of food and tobacco policies: at conferences, on FAO/WHO food policy committees and within WHO, and with monographs, journals and technical briefs." (Guardian 2003) International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is an industry group founded in 1978 by Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Heinz Foundation, General Foods, Kraft Foods (owned by Philip Morris), and Proctor & Gamble.
Manufacturers of aspartame, Monsanto and Ajinomoto, have branches in various parts of the world that have separate memberships in the ILSI.
Holland Sweetener Company, which sells aspartame, is a member of ILSI (ILSI 2003, Guardian 2003). The ILSI funds research on aspartame and other industry concerns. The ILSI Aspartame Committee is made up of the NutraSweet Company, Ajinomoto Co., Coca Cola Co., Pepsico, Inc., Royal Crown Co., Seven-Up, Inc., and other manufacturers of aspartame-containing products [Gordon 1987]. Just what you want for scientific objectivity, eh?
News Target’s Mike Adams continued, "What we have here is a case of yet more pro-aspartame propaganda being paraded around as legitimate science. It's really more of a junk science fraud fest designed to prop up the aspartame industry a little longer even as new science keeps coming out showing the chemical sweetener to be potentially quite dangerous to health.
For the Ajinomoto Company to fund a review by paying money to industry-friendly consulting groups that coincidentally happens to find aspartame to be perfectly safe strains credibility to such a degree that only a fool would put any weight in this announcement. It's like the R. J. Reynolds Company announcing nicotine is not addictive or Coca-Cola declaring that high fructose corn syrup does not promote obesity.” "Of course aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde/diketopiperazine is dangerous to human health. The chemicals it breaks down into (which include formaldehyde) are documented as nervous system toxins. In the natural health industry, aspartame is well known to be an "excitotoxin" -- a substance that harms and kills nerve cells. On top of that, there are literally hundreds of thousands of accounts of people suffering with aspartame consumption. No other food or beverage ingredient has generated more consumer complaints to the FDA that aspartame."
Today there is a 1000 page medical text on the world plague - Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D. A text by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com Even a movie that exposes Don Rumsfeld for being responsible for getting this toxin marketed when the FDA said "no". He was CEO of Searle at the time.
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